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Re: include not included?

2007-01-19 10:33:02
Subject: Re: include not included?
From: Jean-Francois Malouin <Jean-Francois.Malouin AT bic.mni.mcgill DOT ca>
To: Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:21:55 -0500
* Paul Bijnens <Paul.Bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> [20070119 10:03]:
> On 2007-01-18 20:22, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Got this client (Amanda-2.5.1p2 same as server) for which a few DLEs
> > with includes don't work, ie the include debug files are empty and the
> > DLE backups nothing. Turns out that some dirs leading to the DLEs are
> > 700 to some user and so amanda can't stat below the
> > read-write-exec-user-only directory. First time I encounter this. I
> > though runtar being suid to root would not be affected by this...

[...snip..]

> 
> expected and documented  :-)
> 
> >From the amanda.conf man page:

That will teach me not to install the man pages from 2.5.x 
still have those from 2.4.5...

Plain as the sun in the sky...

regards
jf

> 
> 
>     include [ list|file ][[optional][ append ][  string ]+]
>           ...
>           Note
>           For globbing to work at all, even the limited single
>           level, the top level directory of the DLE must be readable
>         by the Amanda user
> 
> 
> The reason is that gnutar has no globbing on the "--files-from=F" option
> (while the "--exclude" does use patterns).  So Amanda builds the list
> of files/dirs to include herself from the patterns in disklist.
> 
> 
> 
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